Concession Stand Crimes by Nicole Asselin

Item: Concession Stand Crimes
Rating: 4
Author: karenbaron

Posted September 9, 2022 by karenbaron in Mystery, Review, Series / 0 Comments

Concession Stand Crimes

by Nicole Asselin

Series: Ball Park Mysteries #2
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Published by Pandamoon Publishing on June 29, 2022
Genres: Cozy Sports Mystery
Pages: 190
Format: ebook, Paperback
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Also in this series: Murder at First Pitch

MADELINE BOUCHER is still reeling from her first few weeks of working for her family’s Independent League Baseball Team, the Abington Armadillos. She found a dead body and survived a kidnapping before finally clearing her brother of a murder. She didn’t think anything could be as dramatic as that, but she was wrong.

Her parents have given her more responsibility in running ballpark events in the hopes that they could retire and leave the team in her hands. Her brother is moving on to the big leagues, so this is her time to shine. Her first task? Deal with a concession stand kerfuffle. Redmond Brewery heiress, Alaska Redmond, storms her way into the ballpark making demands.

The next day, the son of the concession’s manager finds Redmond’s body in one of the beer stands along the ballpark concourse. Again, Madeline finds herself immersed in an investigation. While the suspects start piling up, including a promising young player on the team, Madeline knows she must get involved. With the help of Davis, her new love interest and head of the security department, she delves deeper into the death of the heiress.

Trying to run team events, solve a murder, and have a normal life take their toll as Madeline comes to depend on those in her baseball-loving community, including Bronia, her old family friend who runs a garden center and helps her make sense of things. She even chances a psychic for advice while at a Salem Warlock’s away game. Will anyone help her untangle the mess of suspects including the victim’s family?

Can she clear the name of the Abington Armadillos and start focusing on the season?

Concession Stand Crimes by Nicole Asselin is a great book that gives us an insight into what running a baseball stadium is like on a day-to-day basis.

How did Alaska Redmond get back into the stadium? And why was she at the concession stand?

Madeline Boucher

Madeline Boucher, aka Maddie, works for her family at their Independent League Baseball Team and will run the business once her parents fully retire. I love the Boucher family as they are all different but also the same. They all care for their baseball team, the Abington Armadillos, and want them to succeed. Both as a team and as individual people. Maddie is a hard worker, and I love how she is taking everything in strides with the team. Especially the ways she comes up with to make the stadium continue to bring in money when it’s not baseball season.

Maddie, as a person, is a good person. I like how she wants to be independent and how she fell for a guy who wants to protect her. I’m not too sure if I like her with Davis. Mostly because I feel it’s convenient for her, but I don’t know. Let’s see how it goes.

The Mystery

Madeline Boucher isn’t the person to find the dead body this time. It’s Max, the concession stands owner’s son, who did, and that has to be sucky. Maddie decides to look into it because it happened in her stadium and wants to ensure that no one in her family is responsible. The problem is that the victim and her family are a bunch of wackjobs who have let their money go to their heads. I figured out who did it but not the motive until the killer told Maddie about it.

Four Stars

My rating for Concession Stand Crimes by Nicole Asselin is four stars, and I recommend it to any fans of baseball and cozy mysteries. I thought the story could have used another read-through, but I loved being back with the Boucher family and the Armadillos. Ms. Asselin has a good series on her hands, and I wish this one flowed like the first one. I loved the story, the characters, and the mystery.

The Ballpark Mysteries Series

Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of Concession Stand Crimes by Nicole Asselin.

Until the next time,

Happy Reading!

About Nicole Asselin

Nicole Asselin grew up a Navy Brat, and spent her formative high school years in the middle of Pennsylvania but always identified with her New England roots. Nicole’s family is originally from Connecticut, and her Grandpa Asselin introduced her into the Red Sox nation where she has been a member for her whole life and her Grandma Asselin introduced her to the world of mystery novels.

Nicole graduated from Curry College in Milton Mass with a degree in English/Creative Writing, minoring in Dance in 2004. She also attended George Mason University and received a Master’s in Arts Management… Now working just outside of Boston as a Technical Writer, she lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts with her three cats Julia, Jacques, and Madeline (no relation to the main character of her book).

Nicole is a current member of Sisters in Crime (National and New England) and the Mystery Writers of America. She sits on the Board of Directors for the NE branches of both groups as Social Media Liaison.

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